Jennifer Hooper, the mentoring and business coordinator at the Foster Center for Student Innovation and the Target Technology Incubator at the University of Maine, wrote a column for Mainebiz titled “How to develop a workforce using interns.” Hooper wrote about the Innovate for Maine program, managed by UMaine, which connects Maine college students with growing […]
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The Associated Press reported citizen volunteer training began May 16 at the University of Maine for the Maine Bumble Bee Atlas project. The training workshop is the first to begin to show residents how to gather information about the range and abundance of the state’s bees, according to the report. The Maine Bumble Bee Atlas […]
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The Bangor Daily News published five major points made by Dr. Jonathan Shay, a psychiatrist and combat trauma expert, during his talk “Combat Trauma and the Trials of Coming Home” on May 13 at the University of Maine. More than 250 people attended the keynote address of the fifth annual Conference of the Maine Military […]
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The Free Press reported Environmental Living and Learning for Maine Students (ELLMS), a collaboration between five residential environmental learning centers in Maine, received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA 2015 Environmental Merit Award recognizes individuals and organizations for environmental stewardship and dedication to environmental progress, according to the article. ELLMS was […]
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The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation will host the annual Maine Invention Convention from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 16 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center on campus. About 120 students from 12 middle schools will compete in the 2015 statewide competition that promotes innovative problem solving and inventing […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) spoke with Benjamin Herold-Porter and Heather Anderson, graduating seniors in the University of Maine’s New Media Department, about a fall detection device they developed for older adults to use outside their homes. For their capstone project, the students created a prototype that can detect when the person wearing the device has fallen […]
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The Tri-Town Weekly published an article on Limbeck Engineering, the winners of the $5,000 Bruce Fournier Family Foundation technology prize at the 2015 UMaine Business Challenge. College students and former Freeport High school students Travis Libsack, Nick Nelsonwood and Liam Wade, along with Freeport High School senior Josef Biberstein won the prize for their company, […]
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The Ellsworth American reported on a cooking lesson for third-graders that was held as part of an initiative between FoodCorps and Ellsworth Elementary-Middle School (EEMS). The Maine FoodCorps program is the state branch of a national program that teaches healthful eating, expands school-based gardens and increases locally grown food in school cafeterias. The University of […]
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The University of Maine will hold the annual Clean Sweep Sale 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Friday, May 22 and 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Saturday, May 23 in York Commons. Furniture, rugs, electronics, appliances, housewares, books, bedding, shoes and clothing will be among the items for sale. Items were donated by the university or students who moved out […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WLBZ (Channel 2) interviewed Dr. Jonathan Shay, a nationally recognized psychologist and author of two popular books on combat trauma and the trials of homecoming for veterans and their families, who will give two public addresses at the University of Maine on May 13. Shay spoke about post-traumatic stress disorder […]
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